ipv4-mapped reverse lookups

Mark Andrews marka at isc.org
Mon Jul 8 22:27:43 UTC 2013


Getnameinfo and gethostbyaddr are supposed to lookup the in-addr.arpa records instead of ip6.arpa records for mapped addresses. If you only have a limited range of addresses one could use $generate to add cname records which map from ip6.arpa to in-addr.arpa.

Mark

On 09/07/2013, at 8:12, "Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng." <lkchen at ksu.edu> wrote:

> For reasons unknown, some old Solaris servers are suddenly seeing connections to them as ipv4-mapped ipv6 (ie: ::ffff:10.20.30.40 )  Which is causing problems because it needs the reverse lookup to be right.
> 
> So while we struggle between spending time to investigate why or continue to try to get people to upgrade from these old forgotten servers.
> 
> Is there an easy way for me to provide reverse lookups for those?
> 
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